Thursday, August 7, 2014

Gamma FinFisher hacked: 40 GB of internal documents and source code of government malware published

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A
hacker claims to have hacked a network of the surveillance technology
company Gamma International and has published 40 gigabytes of internal
data. A Twitter account has published release notes, price lists – and
source code. Malware researchers and human rights activists welcome the
publication, Gamma itself refuses to comment.

This is an english adaption of two German articles. Thanks to Anna and Kilian for their help on the translation.